Tuesday, April 28, 2015

A List

I'm going to be honest here. While contemplating today's post, the first thought that came to mind was "All the Ways My Children are Driving Me Crazy Right Now". But I slowly talked myself out of it because one, all of us moms could write that post, and two, truth be told, my kids could probably write the post "All the Ways My Mommy is Driving Me Crazy Right Now". So instead, a list:

1. Y'all, the apocalypse is coming. Joshua was not interested in Cheez-Its today. Anywhere, anytime, if everything else in the world is wrong, a Cheez-It can fix it. A few months ago he decided to go off hot dogs, which was a sad day. So his lunch options are shrinking. I finally pulled out the next best thing after school, tortilla chips (our favorite: Costco brand organic tortilla chips) and that sufficed. Oh Joshua, please like Cheez-Its tomorrow!

2. The only important thing in life right now to G is racing: cars, planes, people. That's what he wants to watch on TV, play on the iPad, and do as his exercise. If you come to our house, chances are you will end up in a foot race. This past Friday his school held a fun run. Basically, instead of having a school fundraiser of selling gift wrap and candy, they have the students solicit donations and they run laps for 15 minutes. I, for one, am a huge fan of this. ALL the money goes to the school AND it encourages physical fitness. Brilliant. Anyway, we were given the option of showing up to cheer them on. So Mary and I took the little kids to watch. It was like a real race with a DJ and balloons and a water stand. I had dressed G in his work out clothes and "fastest" shoes because, as Mary noted, it was probably the most important day of G's life. Oh, we had the best time. He was so proud, and ran so fast every time he came by us (Please see the 9 second video below) and if you have seen him (or FaceTimed) in the last few days your ear has been TALKED OFF about this "race".

3. Just a couple of notes for me to remember about Baby A: Her favorite word(s) right now sounds like,"I do". It's not that she wants to do anything yet, but that's what she says for ANYTHING she doesn't know the word to. Go outside? "I do" Meatball? "I do" Play with cars? "I do" Help? "I do". Her other frequent words include no, na-na (banana), go, night-night, bye-bye, Mama, and Dada.

4. G is really asking a lot of questions about heaven recently. Heaven is a tough concept for him because at this age he wants to live with Mommy and Daddy forever. Joe explains to him that in heaven it will be better than our favorite day we EVER had and we get to be with Jesus. But at this point G says he only "loves Jesus medium".

5. Back to Joshua, that boy is imitating like crazy! It's so exciting, because that is one of our major goals for him right now. He consistently imitates "Cheez-It" and "Juice", but has also imitated "Joshua","Ready", "Bubble", words I can't think of now, and lots of random sounds. Yay Joshua!